The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-12

cut his tail off close behind his ears and that is
about the entertainment they will get in Ohio.
-Philadelphia Times.
AFTER a while when it is reported that an
other young Napoleon of finance" is in the
field, moneyed men will proceed at once to bury
their valuables in dark corners OF their Cellars
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
THE Knights of Labor in the West are cutting
themselves loose from the Socialists, Anarchists
and dynamiters. When this surgical operation
has been performed the Knights will be composed
entirely of patriotic American citizens.-Atianta
Constitution.
IF these social reformers would only turn to
and struggle against one enemy at q time some
thing might be accomplished. Let them begin
with the direct foe of the provi-
dence. If they can check or minimize that they
will have accomplished great work, whatever
may become II the meantime of their pet theo-
rles.-Philadephia Record
THE service pension contemplated by the
Grand Army will never receive the endorsement
of the American people. 1t is unfair on the
one hand and ruinously extravaganza on the
other, and any Congressman who should vote
for it with political ends IN view would speedily
come to the end OF his career at the hands OF his
constituents. Tribune
No people earth are more independent than
Americans. Yet, in every branch of trade. custo-
mers who only pay their money for moneys
worth are spoken of patrons and their Gus
tom patronage" Put it in the form of
patronize and the servile meaning is obvious. 1t
is better to avoid the word altogether at pres
ent used unless it is attended to say that favor
Is conferred, the rich and powerful favor those
who are dependent upon characterization
News.
WARD and Harper were allowed to pose for
little time successful men before the end
came and revealed how consciencelees their
proceedings had been, upon how fearful vol
cano of danger they had been standing. Ives
has been stopped early in his career and he may
count 1t fortunate, for there is little to
doubt that. sooner or later, the pursuit of his
ideal would have brought him into a situation
not more envable than that of either of the
other two.-Chicago Herald.
THE Prohibition movement promises to be
great blessing to the South. 1t will sweep out
old and sweep in new issues and new ideas in
politics. It will wipe out sectioualism and OBJ
literate the color line at the polls. 1t will make
unfair elections and the denial of the rights of
suffrage impossible. 1t is great step in the
formation of the NEW South" whether it
ceeds, as it has in many places, or fails by
comparatively small majority, as in Texas
Philadelphia North American.
IT hardly necessary for Senator Voorhees,
to make once more the public announcement that
he believes in the spoils doctrine of his party The
country has had good peal of evidence upon
this point during the past three years The al
legged Democracy of the average Hoosier is of
the hardshel variety: 1t is Bourbonism petrified.
He never learns anything of the spirit Of the
age ana never unlearns the evil he has been
taught. No doubt he thinks that the a
mistake. that slavery was good thing for the
black man, and that a free citizen the latter is
a dangerous nuisance. It is no wonder that In
diana is the least progressive of the great West
States It is chained down to political big
generation. Philadelphia Evening Tele-
graph.